11197-25 Amending Chapter 6, Article 9, of the South Bend Municipal Code to Update the Regulations for Flood Damage Prevention

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police,fire,and emergency response installations,and installations which produce,use or store hazardous materials or hazardous waste. (14) Development means, for floodplain management purposes, any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate including but not limited to: (a) construction, reconstruction, or placement of a structure or any addition to a structure; (b) installing a manufactured home on a site,preparing a site for a manufactured home, or installing a recreational vehicle on a site for more than 180 days; (c) installing utilities, erection of walls and fences, construction of roads, or similar projects; (d) construction of flood control structures such as levees, dikes, dams, channel improvements, etc.; (e) mining,dredging, filling, grading, excavation, or drilling operations; (f) construction and/or reconstruction of boat lifts, docks,piers, and seawalls; (g) construction and/or reconstruction of bridges or culverts; (h) storage of materials; or (i) any other activity that might change the direction, height, or velocity of flood or surface waters. "Development"does not include activities such as the maintenance of existing structures and facilities such as painting; re-roofing; resurfacing roads; or, gardening,plowing, and similar agricultural practices that do not involve filling, grading, excavation, or the construction of permanent structures. (15) Dry hydrant means a structure that does both of the following: (a) Extends lakeward of the legally established or average normal waterline or shoreline. (b) Provides a means of suction water supply without direct drafting for fire protection. (16) Elevation Certificate means a FEMA form that is routinely reviewed and approved by the White House Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act, that is encouraged to be used to collect certified elevation information. (17) Enclosed area(enclosure) is an area of a structure enclosed by walls on all sides. (18) Enclosure below the lowest floor. See"Lowest Floor"and`Enclosed Area." (19) Existing manufactured home park or subdivision means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed(including,at a minimum,the installation of utilities, the construction of streets,and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of the community's first floodplain ordinance. (20) Expansion to an existing manufactured home park or subdivision means the preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed(including the installation of utilities,the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads). (21) FEMA means the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (22) Fill for floodplain management purposes, means any material deposited or placed which has the effect of raising the level of the ground surface above the natural grade elevation. Fill material includes but is not limited to consolidated material such as concrete and brick and unconsolidated material such as soil, sand, gravel, and stone. (23) Flood or Flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from: (a) The overflow of inland or tidal waters. (b) The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source. (c) Mudslides(i.e.,mudflows)which are proximately caused by flooding and are akin to a river of liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas, as when earth is carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of the current. 4